Deepsea Skate

Bathyraja abyssicola

Gray brown dorsally, ventral side gray brown; mouth and cloaca whitish; may have white blotches on ventral surface; snout elongate and pointed; tail length longer than precaudal length; scapular and orbital thorns absent; tail thorns present; 0-3 nuchal thorns present; mid-dorsal row of thorns present or absent; dorsal and ventral sides of disc and posterior portion of tail covered in fine denticles

Occurence: Bering Sea; California; Japan

Depth: 362-2904 meters     Size: 140 cm

Species code: 410

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